Re: example of insert timestamp

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:21 PM, David Bear <david(dot)bear(at)asu(dot)edu> wrote:

> I've been reading about triggers on insert and found the page at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/triggers.html with some
> sample
> code in the comments.
>
> I'm thinking what I want can't really be this involved.
>
> I want to have a table with a timestamp field that automatically gets the
> value of now() on insert. The timestamp will never be updated. I assume I
> need to create a trigger to do this. If there is an easier way, please
> advise.
>
> Otherwise, is there any sample code that would should be how to do this?
> The
> sample on the page above looks like overkill.<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq>
>

In your create table statement:

"create_dt" TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT now() NOT NULL

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